IMPORTANT LOCAL COVERAGE. WISN 12 NEWS AT10 STARTS RIGHT NOW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS...TWO MILWAUKEE POLICE OFFICERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL--- AFTER THEIR SQUAD CRASHES INTO A TREE... 12 NEWS CHRISTINA PALLADINO IS LIVE AT FROEDTERT WHERE THEY ARE RECOVERING. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT EMAILED US TONIGHT SAYING TWO OFFICERS ARE BEING TREATED HERE AT FROEDTERT-- THEY ARE EXPECTED TO SURVIVE--ALTHOUGH BY THE LOOKS OF THEIR PATROL CAR--IT SEEMS THEY'RE VERY LUCKY. TWO MILWAUKEE POLICE OFFICERS FROM DISTRICT 7 WERE CHASING A SUSPECT WHO WAS RUNNING FROM THEM ALONG 38TH AND ROOSEVELT JUST BEFORE 6 MONDAY EVENING WHEN THEY CRASHED INTO THIS TREE. "IT WAS JUST WILD, SOMETHING OUT OF A MOVIE SCENEIT JUST TOOK OFF AND WAS LIKE WHOO, BOOM, AND HIT THE TREE HERE AND MADE A LITTLE 360 TURN." RICHARD WOODS TELLS ME HE WAS ACROSS THE STREET IN HIS CAR WHEN HE SAW THE PATROL CAR SLAM INTO THE TREE--HE SAYS HE CALLED 911 MINUTES LATER. "ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CAR ACCELERATED AND I WAS LIKE WHOA, WHAT HAPPENED?" WOODS SAYS THE OFFICER IN THE PASSENGER SEAT WAS ABLE TO GET OUT ---GO AROUND THE CAR--- AND ASSIST THE OFFICER DRIVING. OTHER POLICE CARS AND PARAMEDICS ARRIVED SOON AFTER. THE GROUND WHERE THE SQUAD CRASHED IS COVERED IN SNOW AND SLEET--EVEN THE TOW TRUCK WORKERS HAD TO BE CAREFUL GETTING THE SQUAD ONTO THEIR TRUCK. CHARMAINE CHILDS WAS AT HER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET. SHE TELLS ME IT SOUNDED LIKE THE OFFICERS WERE AFTER SOMEBODY BY HOW FAST THEY SEEMED TO BE DRIVING. "I THINK THEY WERE CHASING SOMEBODY AND THEN THEY LOST CONTROL ON THE SNOW, BECAUSE YOU COULD HEAR A SCREECH." POLICE TELL US NO OTHER CARS WERE INVOLVED IN THE CRASH. THE ACTUAL CAUSE STILL REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

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